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Interestingly, the teams weren’t pushing to seize the opportunity at this point, as we were used to in this year’s third free practice, but now due to unfamiliarity with the track and red flags yesterday, one might have thought that they wanted to take advantage of the full training.
The first measured laps were raced by Mercedes, with Bottas beating Hamilton by 28 regiments, but the British soon gave the Finns almost a second with a lap under 1.17.
The track improved rapidly, going particularly well. Pierre Gaslywho on the radio said guys, I don’t know what they did to the car at night, but it goes off. The Frenchman was second in the middle of training, just 2 tenths behind Hamilton.
Pierre Gasly, AlphaTauri AT01
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However, despite the FIA loosening the starting rules, many drivers were canceled, Verstappen took the lead in the mediocre for a while, just as Albon reached the top3 several times, for several seconds.
A Red Bull however, his pace was encouraging, especially considering that the energy drinkers surrounded the mediocre in the first half of training.
We saw an unusual gravel bed ride from Lewis Hamilton, the underside of the Mercedes broke under the Brits, which was not very exemplary this year. The front wing of the six-time world champion’s car also had to be replaced.
Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes F1 W11
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Only Daniel Ricciardo, whose DRS has deteriorated, faced a technical problem, which is not a good sign after the Australian explained that it was not performance but reliability that would decide third-place designer at Renault, McLaren. and Racing. Midpoint.
Charles Leclerc reported an interesting mistake, which, however, was not his fault, but someone in F1 put something aside: Monaco listened to Hamilton and other troops on the radio for a while.
When we already thought that we had escaped the third free practice without a red flag, 1 minute before the checkered flag, Sebastian Vettel Ferrari opened the manhole covers, which were hanging very dangerously, so the last practice was knocked down prematurely.
We are facing an interesting time trial, as without knowing how much reserve Mercedes has, if both teams have now shown their true rhythm, we can expect an exciting battle for pole position.
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